Web Stepper
About
What Web Stepper actually does is shockingly simple. Web Stepper allows you to build a library of your favorite websites in a specially designated bookmark folder, then, pan through those sites with a single click of your mouse while you enjoy a cup of coffee, chin resting on your fist.
Think of it like the old days when you read your favorite newspaper in a particular routine order. Finance news first, sports, then maybe the comics before heading over to the crossword puzzle.
Web Stepper restores this routine in today's digital form.
Sure, people have largely given up on PC-based desktop web surfing. If you're under a certain age in fact, chances are you don't even understand it. But Web Stepper aims as a utility to restore that value by catering to users who still appreciate direct relationships with websites, not their entity feeds, RSS, or e-mail chains.
On a professional level Web Stepper should be of particular interest to journalists or investigators who often smartly visit a series of websites with their eyeballs as part of their projects, on some regular basis.
Production
Web Stepper was developed vibe-style in conversations using Google Gemini AI, and tweaked and refined for distribution by myself, David Pinero. You can learn more about me at my personal blog Explaining Myself. A link to my personal blog is available in the Web Stepper application.
Web Stepper is an echoe of a program I actually did write from scratch back in the 1990s. However, I didn't write it well so it was buggy, and it was Internet Explorer-specific at a time when most people still didn't use that. It didn't get much traction but those very few who did use it found it very useful. Browsers just don't seem to natively understand why people would just want to pan through websites.
Ye Olde "Stepping Stone" navigation bar circa 1990-something.
The old program I mention was called Stepping Stone (and Web Stepper would have been called that if didn't seem that name was now being used by several other software companies.
